Our Next Adventures….

Join me for the opening weekend of Stamford Symphony’s new season! Performing on Saturday, October 14th at 8pm and Sunday the 15th at 3pm, Guest Maestro will be Lidiya Yankovskaya, and the program will include GLINKA Ruslan & Lyudmilla: Overture, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Symphony No. 1 in E minor and TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D Major with Stefan Jackiw, violin. The Stamford Symphony consists of 60 professional musicians, and performances take place in the Stamford Center for the Arts’ 1586-seat Palace Theatre, a spectacularly renovated former vaudeville house in the heart of Stamford’s downtown.

The Jewish Museum presents Modigliani Unmasked, the first exhibition in the United States to focus on Amedeo Modigliani’s early work made in the years after he arrived in Paris in 1906. The exhibition puts a spotlight on Modigliani’s drawings, with a large selection acquired directly from the artist by Dr. Paul Alexandre, his close friend and first patron. The drawings from the Alexandre collection illuminate how the artist’s heritage as an Italian Sephardic Jew is pivotal to understanding his artistic output. Pictured: Installation view of the exhibition Modigliani Unmasked, September 15, 2017 – February 4, 2018, the Jewish Museum, NY. Photo by: Jason Mandella

Plans are in the works for a Gallery Walk on Saturday, October 28th in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. There will be four gallery visits planned, complete with map and information about the art on view, from Laura or from a gallery representative. There will also be a few other options for us to consider, if anyone has more time and would like to continue to explore on their own afterwards. Members and guests are invited to meet for brunch at a restaurant in the area before we begin, more information is coming soon.

Other events in the area that may be of interest….

Timeless New England: A Mortimer H. Slotnick Retrospective opens at the Handwright Gallery in New Canaan with a public reception from 5:30 – 8pm on October 12. Slotnick’s work has been compared to the poetry of Robert Frost – simple and realistic, serene and haunting. The paintings and drawings celebrate a vanishing American countryside, taking what were once common images and turning them into luminous works of color and light. They reflect the beauty and tranquility of the New England landscape, photographic in detail, and with keen attention and balance in composition. The viewer is drawn into each scene, experiencing nature at its purest. Pictured: “Red Barn”, oil on canvas, 18″ x24″. Image courtesy of Handwright Gallery.

At the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY: Two-time GRAMMY winner Rickie Lee Jonesexploded onto the pop scene in 1978 and has made a career of fearlessly experimenting with her sound and persona over 15 critically-acclaimed albums. A cultural phenomenon, Rolling Stone magazine put her on its cover twice in two years, and “Saturday Night Live” gave her an unprecedented three songs for her second appearance. Rickie is both a character in her songs, and the songwriter singing, defying convention with her sometimes brazen sexuality and the mixed bag of jazz, rock and what has come to be known as ‘confessional’ songwriter performances.

At the Irvington Town Hall Theater: Feast your senses on an imaginative and compelling diversity of tastes, cultures, stories, and cinematic styles, followed by a fabulous after-party for all festival ticket-holders and filmmakers. AS iFFis a festival that celebrates short films projected on the big screen. Entries are curated and judged not only by an esteemed jury of film professionals, but by those in attendance that vote for their overall favorite.

Irving Penn Centennial · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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LAURA SCHROEDER

Having lived in Westchester and Fairfield Counties for over 25 years, with administrative and board positions in museums and arts organizations throughout the New York area, Laura has learned much about what the region has to offer for arts and culture lovers. It all started with her creation of the Westchester-Fairfield Arts Group in 2011, and since then she has been able to connect with many fellow arts enthusiasts. Laura went on to discover much more about the cultural offerings in New York and Connecticut, and continues to strive to explore new arts organizations and venues as well as their exhibitions, performances and programs.